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Can an old hard drive cause a computer to freeze?
My computer is fairly new except for the hard drives. I recently replaced the motherboard, cpu, and power supply, but not the hard drives. All of the hard drives in my computer are fairly old and some I even bought used so I think they might be about to fail.
Whenever I walk away from my computer and come back after 10 or 20 minutes the computer freezes several seconds after the monitor turns on. I have enough time to move my mouse around a little bit before it becomes completely unresponsive.
I should mention that I set my computer so that nothing goes into standby in the Windows settings including the hard drives.
Whenever I walk away from my computer and come back after 10 or 20 minutes the computer freezes several seconds after the monitor turns on. I have enough time to move my mouse around a little bit before it becomes completely unresponsive.
I should mention that I set my computer so that nothing goes into standby in the Windows settings including the hard drives.
celazkon
Could be faulty RAM or PSU. Check your ram with memtestx86 or goldmemory. Also see the electrical current values provided by power supply.
yeah, it sounds like the RAM
You could always check through the system error logs for any ntfs or controller errors. If the drives are failing you'll generally see a bunch of errors in the logs about it.
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check also if the disks oprate in DMA - not PIO mode : http://winhlp.com/node/10
also - can you post the disk models to know what we are talking about? old disk does not say much
also - can you post the disk models to know what we are talking about? old disk does not say much
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It turned out to be the hard drive. I couldn't get the hard drive check utilities working on ultimatebootcd, but PassMark's Disk Checkup worked fine. My 'D' drive was having issues and after I disconnected everything runs fine.